Since 2005 I am constructing musical robots and automated instruments. My last robots was the MR-808. The goal is to build custom made instruments, which can be used in the context of electronic music in terms of musical structure. The technical demand is that they must be able to be played live, must integrate into [...][Continue Reading...]

If the electric guitar is the icon of the rock-era, Rolands Drum machine “TR-808″ is maybe the most symbolically charged instrument of electronic influenced music styles from hip-hop to techno. The TR-808 is widely seen as the symbol and milestone for a change in music production and music reception [1]: at its launch in 1981 [...][Continue Reading...]

"Sonicrobots is dedicated to robotic music instruments, autonomous tonal music machines, musical hacks and circuit bending. Music hacking is our form of anti-passiveness, through which we think the individual can have an impact on his or her environment, status and state of mind."
Moritz Simon Geist